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SAP sets up Indian training centres

Enterprisewide Resource Planning is arguably the hottest software of business interest today. And prices for ERP courses run into five figures and more. That's when SAP, which has its own SAP R/3 ERP software, has come in to set up its Sapient College programme in Bombay and Bangalore.

SAP had already begun pushing its package through training at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, last year.

Now its hobnobbing with administrators at IIM Calcutta and universities in

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Bombay and New Delhi, targetting the courses at business managers. The general public isn't invited for these courses.

The Sapient College programme, though, could help individuals get certified as trained SAP professionals. While other institutes also offer SAP courses, a certificate from SAP could go a long way to help an individual find a job as a software programmer beyond Indian shores, even finding his name listed on a new roster of IT professionals being put together in Hyderabad.

SAP is currently scouting for trainers who meet the grade.

SAP India is one of the biggest contributors to the mother company, controlling over 60 per cent of India's enterprise application software market with over 100 installations.

It recently bagged an ERP contract from all the companies of the Reliance group. It has already implemented the SAP R/3 at Reliance Petrochemicals Ltd's Jamnagar site. SAP India allegedly bagged the contract due to its ability to manage the needs of the large and complex group.

-Compiled from the Indian media

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